I was aghast to listen to your advertisement on Red FM between 1545 hrs and 1555 hrs on May 23rd 2013. The R City Mall, shamelessly names Medha Patkar, of Narmada Bachao Andolan , the activist enjoying shopping at R City Mall. I contacted Medha Patkar and she denied completely giving any consent to the R city Mall using her name. Even the Radio Station RED FM, with tag line Bajate Raho , have ignored such a big blunder in the advertisement

Medha Patkar is a name which resonates with rights of slumdwellers in Mumbai and she is last person to endorse and shop at Malls. She has been fighting the Builder Mafia and has stood like a rock against the islum demolitiosn for many years now and recently had been on a ten day hunger strike against the Golibar demolitions, which have were stopped due the relentless efforts of NAPM.

R City has defamed Medha Patkar by using her name in their promotional advertisement for the Mall.

The advertisement should be immediately withdrawn , and the Mall and Radio channel need to tender a public apology with immediate effect.

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Thank you very much Kamayani for bringing it to our notice.Most of us associated with NAPM do not visit malls and hardly happen to listen to such adds.It was very kind of you to bring this mischief to our notice……..Suhas Kolhekar,Convener,NAPM maharashtra